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Endor

aka Forest Moon, Sanctuary Moon

Outer RimGRID H-16Zuma (Moddell) sector

Coordinates: Canon (Star Systems of the Galaxy, 2025)

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Expanded Dossier

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The Forest Moon of Endor orbits the silvery gas giant Endor in the remote Moddell sector, a temperate moon of kilometer-tall trees inhabited by Ewoks - small, spear-armed hunter-gatherers whose primitiveness the Empire fatally discounted. Its sibling moon Kef Bir is an ocean world ringed by similar wreckage.

The Empire built the shield generator for the second Death Star on the Forest Moon, garrisoned by legions of its 'best troops.' In 4 ABY Rebel commandos under Han Solo, aided by an Ewok uprising of logs, rocks and gliders, destroyed the generator, enabling the fleet to destroy the battle station - debris from which still litters both moons. The Battle of Endor killed Palpatine and broke the Empire's spine.

First appearance: Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983)

Planetary Data

System
Endor System
Sector
Zuma (Moddell)
Region
Outer Rim
Grid square
H-16
Climate
Temperate
Population
30.0 million
Government
Tribal
Economy
Subsistence
Suns
Ibleam
Moons
(Itself a moon of the gas giant Endor; sibling moons include Kef Bir)
Day length
18 standard hours
Year length
402 local days

Terrain

Forest

Native Species

Ewok

Languages

Ewokese

Economy

Primary sector: Subsistence

Points of Interest

  • ⬢Bright Tree Village, home of Wicket's tribe
  • ⬢The Imperial shield generator bunker
  • ⬢Death Star II debris field shared with Kef Bir

Major Events

battle of endor

Affiliation History

Rebel Alliance
Galactic Civil War
4 ABY - 4 ABY

Archive Annotations

  • ⬢Forest exteriors filmed among the redwoods of northern California
  • ⬢C-3PO was worshipped by the Ewoks as a golden god
  • ⬢Anakin Skywalker's funeral pyre burned on the Forest Moon